Genealogy Today
Sunday, July 20, 2008, 6:06 PM
[General]
Conas ta' tu'? As most genealogists know genealogy today is becoming more and more hi-tech. Today genealogists are finding definite links to ancestral lines of old by using DNA forensic science to prove an absolute connection to their lines. I received an exciting email from someone I had never heard from before. She is a direct descendant of my ancestor Johnston Elliott through his son, Green Lee Elliott, from his second marriage to Susannah Lucianah Brown . I am a direct descendant of Johnston Elliott through his elder son, Austin Elliott, from his first marriage to Susannah Austin. I am the gr-gr-gr-grandaughter of this son. She is the gr-gr-grandaughter of Green Lee Elliott. Her cousin, which means that he is somehow my cousin also, H. T. Elliott has been tested for DNA cheek sample. He now has been shown to be descendant from the Elliots of Midlam Mill. I knew through my own research and from the book 'Elliotts of Casey' written by Jo Touchstone, due to the fact that my research merged with her information, that I was of this line of Elliiots but to get the DNA confirmation is very exciting. Score one for an amateur fly-by-the seat of her pants genealogist. Yipee!!! feichfidh me' ar ball thu', Slan, Sinead
How exciting! My husband did the DNA testing but the closest match we found was 54 generations ago. He was very disappointed because he is a first generation American and as far as we know, all his father's family were killed in the holocaust. His mother's family came from Bulgaria and Germany. We keep hoping there will be a closer match some day. Congratulations!
Cyndy7:25 PM